Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

From fame to shame

Letitia Elizabeth Landon was the leading star of 1820s London — until banished from society and the literary canon

issue 18 May 2019

  • L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’

    Lucasta Miller

    Cape, pp. 390

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